Hob
E242182
Hob is a medieval English diminutive of the given name Robert, historically used as a familiar or nickname.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2187178 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hob Context triple: [Hopkins, derivedFromGivenName, Hob]
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A.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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B.
Broglien
A Broglien is a resident or native of the commune of Broglie in the Eure department of northern France.
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C.
Heage
Heage is a village in Derbyshire, England, best known for its historic stone tower windmill and rural setting.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Hobson
Hobson is the surname of Mellody Hobson, a prominent American businesswoman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hob Target entity description: Hob is a medieval English diminutive of the given name Robert, historically used as a familiar or nickname.
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A.
Houbie
Houbie is the main village on the Shetland island of Fetlar in Scotland.
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B.
Broglien
A Broglien is a resident or native of the commune of Broglie in the Eure department of northern France.
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C.
Heage
Heage is a village in Derbyshire, England, best known for its historic stone tower windmill and rural setting.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Hobson
Hobson is the surname of Mellody Hobson, a prominent American businesswoman and co-CEO of Ariel Investments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
diminutive given name
ⓘ
medieval English name ⓘ |
| category |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
hypocorisms ⓘ |
| culturalContext | medieval England ⓘ |
| derivesFrom | Robert ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation | medieval English naming practice of forming short forms by consonant change (R→H) ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| historicalUsage | familiar form of Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameType |
hypocorism
ⓘ
nickname ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Bob
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Dob ⓘ Rob ⓘ |
| shortFormOf | Robert ⓘ |
| usagePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Hob Description of subject: Hob is a medieval English diminutive of the given name Robert, historically used as a familiar or nickname.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hob
linked to: Hob